News Station Accidentally Warns About Explosive Birth Control

A single mistyped letter completely changes a breaking news tweet.

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We've all had autocorrect swoop in at the last minute and totally change the meaning of one of our tweets, but most of us aren't in charge of social media for ABC's New York affiliate. WABC swapped a single letter and completely changed the meaning of a story about a possible improvised explosive device (or IED) in a home in northern New Jersey (via Media Bistro).

The tweet in question: "Guns and possible IUD found in Union Township home. Full details on Eyewitness News." Guns and birth control? Sounds like a lethal combination. Now let's all picture Law and Order's Jerry Orbach hunched over at a crime scene, scowling as he stares at this intrauterine device. "I'm not sure," he grumbles. "But I think this might belong inside a vagina." The tweet was updated moments later, but not before internet vigilantes took screenshots of the alert.